On 10/30/08 12:24, Sowmini.Varadhan at Sun.COM wrote:
> On (10/30/08 12:21), Darren Reed wrote:
>   
>> If we're having ipadm, then we should also have tcpadm and udpadm.
>>
>> transadm just doesn't fit (besides sounding like a toxic food ingredient.)
>>
>>     
>
> I prefer "xpadm" myself (lesser typing) but that sounds like the
> adm for a trade-marked OS :-)
>
> However, the idea was to have an administrative interface that was
> approximately one per OSI layer, and the motivation was that these
> interfaces, at least for the TCP/IP family of protocols, would
> operate on a similar set of objects.
>   

If that is the case then "ipadm" is named incorrectly.
netadm/transadm or ipadm/tcpadm/udpadm/...

Darren

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